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I've been wrestling with Ableton for years. I think Per's answer is very accurate and well informed. One caveat I would make is to distinguish what "can be done" and what works best within the software's "workflow paradigm." I don't want that to sound pompous. As software has become more and more complex, it's design becomes more centered on a "workflow paradigm" where the software designers make certain assumptions about how the software will be used. In Ableton, that is clearly around working with prerecorded loops. Ableton makes it really easy to mix and match loops of different lengths on the fly in a live situation. It also makes it really easy to beat sync loops that were originally different tempos. The design of the program makes that easy and intuitive. This maybe simplistic, but I think Ableton's strength is as a live remixing tool. If you are recording most of your material live instead of working with prerecorded loops, I think you will find yourself working harder and spending more time reading the manual, at least that's my experience for what it's worth. I'm somewhere in the middle where I work with prerecorded beats and play live looped guitar and keyboards on top of that. The built in looper is straightforward and reasonably easy to use. I took a one day class on Ableton through the (San Francisco) Bay Area Video Coalition with Chris Willits and that definitely helped me to get my head around Ableton. On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote: > I think you can download the PDF manual! It is very well written and > explains everything in about three hours reading. > > Per > > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Matt Davignon <mattdavignon@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Does it do all this stuff? > > -- Art Simon simart@gmail.com myspace [dot] com/artsimon